Dawn

Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL, US · 107 x 215 cm

Soft Calico
Soft Low-contrast, gentle chroma - mid-key values and low saturation, approachable and calm.
Calico Warm speckled neutral - the color of unbleached cotton, mottled and soft.
Dawn by William-Adolphe Bouguereau

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
48.3
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
11.7
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
5.6
cool
Dominant Hue
#797260 orange

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 90°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 48.3
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 11.7
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 48.3 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"Dawn" (1881) reads as a shadowed, muted-saturation warm palette built around Beige and Amber. The body of the palette stays restrained while smaller hits of color do the work. A low-prevalence accent at #3D391E pulls the eye.

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